Thanks guys for the info!
First thing I thought of for an answer when I saw the title of the post was - SHOOT IT DOWN!
hahahha Awesome. "Yeah I got this annoying little one that keeps terrorizing my dog at night in back yard after dinner....hahahha It wont go away"... "We don't need no stinkin shotguns to drop the drones, we got EMP".
Wow, awesome links everyone!. Just got done reading the thing and posts all about the J pipe. I agree with that theory 100 percent. Matter of fact, look at our air intake violin cases and airbox that most have removed on this site. That was purpousely designed for exactly that same reason im guessing. other than to have an extra air pocket of hot air already under vacuum ready to go fast down the throttle body.
Nice videos Cougar!. Your cougar is damn quick man even without seeing the times at the end.
I was leaning more towards putting the cats back on simply for DOT Nazis and new money grabbing legislation to enable more heat to the hotrodders pocketbooks in form of tickets.. Its getting worse.
I have basicly the same setup exactly as your pic up on the lift. Except with ART longtube headers going into that 2X2 Magnaflow with X over built in. Sounds about the same too in videos but a lot louder. ( to be honest it actually sounded a lot better with open headers. ) haha But never could go down the road like that with a straight face, id get shot. hahah
Trying to get rid of the raspyness and also the drone that seems to only bother me while under load very light acceleration in 4th gear around 2000RPM 35MPH-50MPH, in town cruising speed. If I drive around with overdrive button off in 3rd, its sounds nice and mean. But when it pops into 4 overdrive it is like driving your old IROC Z or 88 Trans AM with those cheap ass cat back systems they used to sell. Its not tight and growly like the stangs, its more like diareha of low base farting. haha Can't describe it.
Im really intrigued about the J pipe. That is sound phisics right there and worth the shot at doing. We definitely have the room to pull it off back there with no muffs. I think ill add the CATs to get back legal, and then order some more mandrels and fab up some J pipes 2.5 inch and have cousin weld them in for me. Wow, this could be the solution.
Thanks for all your responses guys. Ill try to post a video up on one of the sites and sneak a link in here. Ill have to email utube again to find out what my old password was and do it there if possible. Seems to work a lot better than photo bucket anymore. I hardly use that now.